Gastropod Synonyms

găstrə-pŏd
A class of mollusks typically having a one-piece coiled shell and flattened muscular foot with a head bearing stalked eyes
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. cowrie
  2. limpet
  3. univalve
  4. mollusk
  5. pteropod
  6. slug
  7. snail
  8. volute

Words Related to Gastropod

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Gastropod Sentence Examples

  • It occurs immature in the gastropod Nassa.

  • In a dextral Gastropod the shell is coiled in a right-handed spiral from apex to mouth, and the spiral also projects to the right of the median plane of the animal.

  • The problem of the causes of the torsion of the Gastropod body has been much discussed.

  • As in all such introand e-versible organs, eversion of the Gastropod proboscis is effected by pressure communicated by the muscular body-wall to the liquid contents (blood) of the body-space, accompanied by the relaxation of the muscles which directly pull upon either the sides or the apex of the tubular organ.

  • B, The same, partially everted by eversion of the sides, as in the Nemertine proboscis and Gastropod eye-tentacle = pleurecbolic.

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